- Food Blender: A versatile tool used for blending ingredients into smooth purees or mixtures; ideal for creating mole sauce by combining nuts, chocolate, and spices.
- Mortar and Pestle: Traditional cooking tool used for grinding ingredients like nuts, chilies, and spices to a fine paste or powder; perfect for making mole sauce from scratch.
- Hand Blender (Immersion Blender): Used for blending ingredients directly in the pot or bowl, making it convenient to incorporate nuts and spices into your mole sauce.
- Heavy Saucepan with Lid: Essential for slow cooking and reducing mole sauces, providing even heat distribution to prevent burning.
- Nonstick Skillet (22-Inch): Useful for browning ingredients like hazelnuts or chicken before adding them to the mole sauce.
- Food Processor (14 Cup): Great for quickly chopping or grinding large quantities of nuts and spices needed in mole sauce preparation.
- Digital Kitchen Scale: Ensures precise measurement of ingredients for a balanced mole sauce, which is crucial given the recipe's reliance on ratios.
- Mixing Bowls (2-Piece): Needed for mixing ingredients; large size useful for combining and stirring the components of your mole sauce.
- Cutting Board: Provides a clean surface for chopping nuts and preparing ingredients before they're added to the mole sauce.
- Tongs: Helpful for handling hot ingredients like hazelnuts when stirring them into the mole sauce to avoid burns.
- Wooden Spoon Set (5 Pieces): A versatile set for stirring and blending ingredients during the preparation of your mole sauce.
6 tablespoons vegetable oil
6 large garlic cloves, peeled
8 ounces hazelnuts with skin (about 2 cups)
1 1/2 large ripe plantains,* peeled, cut into 1/2-inch-thick rounds
1 1/2 pounds Red Delicious apples, peeled, quartered, cored
1 medium-size white onion, thickly sliced
13 dried guajillo chiles* (about 2.5 ounces), stemmed, cut open, seeds and veins removed
3 dried ancho chiles* (about 1.5 ounces), stemmed, cut open, seeds and veins removed
3/4 cup prunes (about 4 ounces)
7 whole cloves
6 whole allspice
1/2 teaspoon coriander seeds
1/2 teaspoon aniseed
1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds
1 cinnamon stick, broken in half
2 5- to 6-inch-diameter corn tortillas
9 cups (or more) low-salt chicken broth
2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
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